Neve Harrington

Neve Harrington’s interdisciplinary practice spans performance, writing, conversation, installation, and, increasingly, space design. Her work explores relationships between liveness, texture, accessibility, play, and neurodivergent experiences of information processing and attention. It foregrounds connections between doing, seeing, touching, and speaking through the ways that attention is tethered by participatory actions including sewing and dancing. At the center of her practice is an interest in co-creation with visitors, audiences, and participants.

Harrington’s work has been staged and presented in collaboration with: Oriente Occicente, Rovereto (2025); Tanz im August, Berlin (2025); Fierce Festival (2024); The Place, London (2024); Brighton Festival (2024); Krokus Festival, Hasselt (2024); Arnolfini, Bristol (2023); Sadler’s Wells, London (2023); Tanssin Aika, Jyväskylä (2023); Dance City (2023); Middlesbrough Art Week (2023); Young Dance, Zug (2023); NottDance, Nottingham (2022 & 2019); PURPLE, Berlin (2022); ArtBomb, Doncaster (2022); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead (2021); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2021); Ravnedans, Kristiansand (2021); Cambridge Junction (2020); DanceLive, Aberdeen (2020); Fest en Fest, London (2020); V&A Dundee (2020); Inkonst, Malmö (2020); Wellcome Collection, London (2019); Lighthouse, Poole (2019); RISE, Findhorn (2019); The Old Market, Brighton (2019); Our City Dances, Brighton (2019); Sadler’s Wells Sampled, London (2019); V&A Museum of Childhood, London (2019); NOWNESS (2019); Tanz in Winterthur (2019); Theaterfestival Favoriten, Dortmund (2019); Et 20 l’été, Paris (2019); Sånafest, Hølen (2018); Dance Umbrella, London (2018); Brighton Digital Festival (2018); V&A Museum, London (2018); Sadler’s Wells Presents: Wilderness Festival (2018); Horniman Museum, London (2018); Villa Empain, Brussels (2017 & 2016); and Bosse & Baum, London (2015).

She has completed residencies and research projects with and through the Jerwood Choreographic Research Award (2025); the AHRC-funded “Performance, Possession and Automation” project at Bluecoat, Liverpool (2024); Tanec Praha/The Place, Prague (2024); Choreodrome, The Place (2023); the Dance City Gillian Dickinson Commission (2023); Reading University’s Public Art Commission (2019); IDOCDE, Vienna (2019); Cove Park (2018); the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2018); FABRIC, Nottingham (2018); the Choreographic Coding Lab, Amsterdam (2017); a Calder Foundation commission at the Natural History Museum (2016); ImPulsTanz Vienna (2016 & 2013); Fondation Boghossian, Brussels (2016); Brandwatch, Brighton Digital Festival (2016); and A Million Minutes, Archway (2013).

Harrington has also worked as a performer in exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2012); the Venice Biennale (2013); White Cube, London (2014); Het Stedelijk, Amsterdam (2015); KIASMA, Helsinki (2015); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2016); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2016); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2017); and Sadler’s Wells (2021). She was awarded the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Europe Beyond Access European co-commission in 2025.

Neve Harrington is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 in the framework of the Europe Beyond Access network which is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.